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Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead

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aliases@malabou_future_2005, loc. 153

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Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead

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Having said this, however, almost as a gesture towards this formal structure which is not some sort of metalanguage but in which there would be no such thing as a meta-language, I do not believe I am opposed to what Malabou says, in order to respond to the objections addressed to Hegel, in her reinterpretation of Hegel’s reading of the death of God. ‘God himself is dead’: Hegel has never ceased to return to this phrase whose Lutheran provenance he understands all too well (and we have the feeling that to read Hegel without Luther is as blinding as to read, say, Heidegger without Luther – and without Meister Eckhart; even if we are unlikely to believe it in this last case). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 153

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  • XREF: The parallel of reading Hegel or Heidegger without Luther directly tracks the reader’s core task of grounding her brain-plasticity concept in Hegel’s dialectic — showing the theological (Lutheran) matrix of the very notion of death-of-God negativity. — connects to: For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154; Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation; Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack (+6 more)
  • DEFINE: Establishes ‘God himself is dead’ as a recurring Lutheran-provenance phrase central to Malabou’s reinterpretation of Hegel.

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